Excited for this one. Any thoughts or predictions?

Duke is a major contender:

Here we go!!

🏀 Game number 1
🕘 9pm on ACCN
📍 Cameron Indoor stadium
The older I get (33) the shorter these off seasons feel. Which is fine by me cuz I’m ready for some DUKE BASKETBALL. We come into year 2 for Coach S as hyped as we can be.. and for good reason. We return a plethora of talent that would make any fan drool. We may not be ranked Number 1 but don’t be confused, the college basketball world knows this is Dukes season.

Dartmouth of the Ivy League (predicted to finish 7th out of 8 teams) is coming into Cameron fresh off the heels of a 10-18 season. Coached by David McLaughlin who
Is entering his 7th year on the sidelines. Prior to Dartmouth he was the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Northeastern University. Prior to that he was the head coach at Division II Stonehill College where he made two final fours. Assistant coach Josh Einhorn is the only coach on staff that has any ACC experience.Josh was a student manager at Pitt until he graduated in 2016. He was later at BC as a Grad Assistant before joining the staff.
Fun fact, assistant coach Braeden Estes spent 10 days in Dubai working as a coach at the Mason Plumlee Basketball Camp.


Duke should run away with this one rather quickly.. I want to see no let down and the drum for us being Great get louder and louder.

Duke-102
Dartmouth- 63

Late game last night. Dartmouth showed some fight but we were just too overwhelmingly talented for them. Loved seeing Scheyer jawing with the refs, it was something we just did not see much from him last year and we really ended up getting screwed in a couple of games because of it - IMO.

I should be consistent at putting these up this year - no health issues and I am not a family caregiver anymore.

Anyway - who gets the Game ball?

First game thread of the season and man, I'm stoked for real basketball to start.

Here's the preview for tomorrow night.

Programming note: I'll be there with full coverage.

Game predictions:

- Ryan Young is first sub off of the bench.

- Jeremy Roach leads Duke in scoring, thinking in the neighborhood of 15-17 points.

- Jaden Schutt makes three 3s.

God am I tired of seeing this professional student bacot play. All he ever does is push out with his arms. Refs doing their part and calling out fouls but radford is leading 41-38

Need some random/under the radar games that can get me to Monday night. The obvious ones are obvious. Need some random, fun games to watch.

This is sad for me.

I was a sort of Duke fan from the 78 team. But what really made me a diehard fan was when Coach K went there and that was because I had so much respect for the way Knight coached basketball - man to man defense, motion offense, discipline, didn't need the best players to win.

I know Knight went haywire in many ways but I still had a fondness for him in spite of his flaws. He did a lot of good for a lot of people and players. And he was such a huge influence on our great coach who made Duke what it is today. I'm sure Coach is saddened as well. (I have faith in these kinds of things - I have my own personal views of eternal life that I won't go into).

Rest in Peace, Coach Knight. You were a legend and huge influence.

Getting this thread up a day early because I've got some programming news ...

I had a death in my family and am headed out of town today. I'm fine, it wasn't sudden; but I need to go be with my family for a few days.

Will do what I can remotely to preview Thursday night's game. Don't really know how much content that entails, though.

I'm hoping to make it back to NC for the game on Thursday night. Just don't know how the timing is going to work out, though.

Apparently had a secret scrimmage yesterday, and based on what I’ve seen and heard, Duke beat down the #22 Wildcats….

This is a teaser, not going to bring out my big research brain to this one but we need somewhere to chat the game! Anyone going or watching online? Not sure how to get ACCNX so doubt I’ll see it

I hope we get to see a lot of time for everyone down the bench!

Firing up a thread to discuss preseason topics and starting with a story from today -- we talked to Scheyer and the rest of the coaching staff.

Story on Emanuel Dildy coming up to speed on all things Duke.

what is your regular season L prediction, ACC finish prediction and seed in the tourney?

I predict 3 losses- one out of conference possibly Arkansas- 2 in ACC play. Both on the road likely a combo of State/Wake/Miami/FSU

Number 1 in ACC and the top overall seed

One to keep a close eye on. I have a feeling VT and Duke will be the likeliest flip candidates

Thread for this week, starting with the tweets off of Elko's presser:

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Hell of a NBA debut...DOUBLE DOUBLE!!!

16 points, 10 boards! in a win over the Spurs!

When he was on the court, the Mavs enjoyed a +20 advantage....

Best rookie on the floor, which is saying a lot considering that victor Victor Wembanyama is supposed to be a revolutionary talent!

CTC is tomorrow night, figure there should be a thread for all of the appropriate overreactions.

Here's a fun little story on Stanley Borden and his intro last year.

Anyone see that Stewart broke Zions record for standing vertical jump? Impressive.

Firing up this week's thread with the updates from Mike Elko's presser:

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With him reclassifying from 2026 to 2025, will be interesting to see how quickly we ramp up his recruitment. Conversations between him and the Duke staff have ramped up with news of his reclassification. I wonder if by us recruiting AJ, Peat, Meleek Thomas, Caleb Wilson, and Jalen Haralson at full tilt could put pressure on Cameron & Cayden Boozer to make a decision earlier vs playing this game that they’re doing now by discussing every potential college choice not named Duke.

The 2025 class is absolutely loaded at SF, PF, SG. It’s thin at PG and very thin at Center. It’s pretty clear that we recruit and get to the NBA more forwards than any other school. We’re not taking a PG in the 2024 class to my knowledge, as the assumption is Foster will come back for his Sophomore year. We will need to get a transfer portal PG; start recruiting a 2025 PG; or take a combo guard like Meleek Thomas that you think can handle the position.

In football recruiting. A senior riser May be on board soon and it’s one of those Elko evals that will likely age well…

Kicking off this week's thread for the game against N.C. State.

Thread of updates from the press conference:

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